By Murray Sherriffs
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19-year-old-Lydia Ghorici has been charged with murder in connection with killing a senior in his home during a break-in on Renaud Street in St. Hubert, last Sunday. The man’s wife is recovering from injuries that she received in the attack.
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Montreal police have arrested a 19-year-old man in a stabbing attack on a 13-year-old girl and a 28-year-old woman in St. Leonard, on Grandes Prairies boulevard near Lacordaire.
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88-year-old Jeanne Demers-Goyer has died in the cold, her walker found nearby, outside a private seniors’ residence on Promenade des Îles, in Laval.
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A coalition of federal, provincial, and municipal leaders, along with major financial partners, have inaugurated four new housing projects that will provide 67 safe living environments for women who have chosen to leave the violence in their homes and use available support services to help them rebuild their lives.
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A new transitional housing unit has opened in the Plateau, as part of a $48-million investment in women’s shelters.
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Newly-elected Westmount Mayor Michael Stern has apologized to a resident, after being caught on a hot microphone muttering “fucking asshole” to Richard Dufour, after he asked Councillor Antonio D’Amico if he would resign for having voted against a committee recommendation to keep garbage pick-up restrictd to once a week and because of his poor attendance record on the committee.
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York Regional Police say that a “coalition of adult men” is responsible for a series of violent crimes, including murder and home invasions in Quebec and Ontario, and that the gang was mobile and brazen as it robbed banks, cellphone stores, homes and shot people—even firing at someone in a crowded hospital emergency room in London.
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The city of St. Jérôme has stopped dismantling tent cities for homeless people, because it is too cold and will work with people occupying the tents to get them into warmer places.
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Two days of G7 country AI-minister meetings to iron out digital agreements that may bridge deep divisions between the European Union and the United States on artificial intelligence regulation have concluded in Montreal.
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There will be a number of planned service outages on the REM commuter train network in coming days and weeks, to prepare for the opening of the Anse à l’Orme branch.
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Metro (Metro Plus, Super C, Food Basics, Adonis and Première Moisson) has signed the Canadian Grocery Industry Code of Conduct, designed to promote fair dealings between grocers and suppliers, joining Loblaw (which signed December 2), and Sobeys (earlier this year).
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Tampa Bay / Habs 7 p.m.
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Sun / cloud / -7º today
Snow (5 cm) -2º tomorrow
